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Discrimination and Diversity: Market and Non-market Settings

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  • Breit, William
  • Horowitz, John B

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This paper analyzes discrimination in light of two possibilities: that variety has a positive marginal value and that it is less costly to deal with more homogeneous inputs. In market settings, it explains the anomaly that firms practicing discrimination in hiring may survive in a competitive environment. In nonmarket settings, it explains the minority separatism practiced under the name of 'multiculturalism' on college campuses. Curriculum reforms in the direction of more ethnic, racial, and religious 'exclusivity' may be understood as attempts to change the constraints within which individuals of diverse cultural backgrounds, brought together into intimate contact, may maximize their utilities. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Breit, William & Horowitz, John B, 1995. "Discrimination and Diversity: Market and Non-market Settings," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 84(1-2), pages 63-75, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:84:y:1995:i:1-2:p:63-75
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    1. Waddell, Glen R. & Lee, Logan M., 2014. "The Timing of Preference and Prejudice in Sequential Hiring Games," IZA Discussion Papers 8445, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    2. Hirsch, Boris & Jahn, Elke J. & Zwick, Thomas, 2019. "Birds, Birds, Birds: Co-Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity, and Voluntary Turnover," IZA Discussion Papers 12333, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    3. Lee, Logan M. & Waddell, Glen R., 2021. "Diversity and the timing of preference in hiring decisions," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 184(C), pages 432-459.
    4. Boris Hirsch & Elke J. Jahn & Thomas Zwick, 2020. "Birds, Birds, Birds: Co‐Worker Similarity, Workplace Diversity and Job Switches," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 58(3), pages 690-718, September.
    5. John B. Horowitz, 2002. "Why Higher Real Wages May Reduce Altruism for the Poor," Eastern Economic Journal, Eastern Economic Association, vol. 28(3), pages 351-362, Summer.

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